Welcome to Prepaid Phone News' regular Sunday Prepaid Phones on Sale this Week post listing the best current US prepaid and unlocked phone deals.

This week's Deal of the Week is the AT&T GoPhone ZTE Zmax 2 LTE Android phone on sale for $59.99 at BestBuy. This is the best price I've ever seen for the brand new ZMax 2, which launched at $129.99 and typically sells for $80 to $100.

The Zmax 2 will work out of the box on AT&T postpaid and prepaid, Cricket and AT&T MVNOs such as TracFone and Pure TalkUSA. If unlocked, it is also compatible with T-Mobile and T-Mobile MVNOs. AT&T will reportedly unlock these phones for non-customers for free. You most follow the steps listed here exactly to get a free unlock and results are not guaranteed. The ZMax 2 supports LTE bands 2, 4, 5 and 12 making it fully compatible with T-Mobile. It also supports quad band GSM and 2100 Mhz HSPA+ for international use.

Unadvertised in store only specials: Some items have very limited availability, especially with prices ending in .98 which indicates a clearance item. Use Brickseek's Target Inventory Checker to check for price and availability in your area by DPCI number (after price in listings below).

T-Mobile doesn't need to lower smartphone prices. They are the #1 smartphone sales channel in the USA, selling 23% of all smartphones in Q1 2016. Verizon sold 22%, AT&T 20% and Sprint 17%. Other carriers sold 8%+ and 'open channel' not tied to a carrier sold 9%+.

The AT&T GoPhone iPhone 5s 16 GB at the AT&T GoPhone site is $199.99 with $45 airtime purchase. Is the $45 airtime tied to the phone or could I use it on another GoPhone or even sell it? Seems like a pretty good deal on a new iPhone 5s.

"Verizon (or Selectel) LG G2 VS980 LTE Android phone (new) $99.99 on eBay" that's listed I've watched in the past and it seems like the price listed lasts for a short amount of time, so if you want one at this price, I'd get one soon. I think it goes up by the end of the day even, can anyone else confirm? I don't want anyone to think I have any affiliation with the seller. I bought one from another seller, pretty solid phone but the camera is kind of slow, otherwise great phone.

Of the 44 shown as sold it started at 139.99 and gradually changed price to the current 99.99, but I do not see any fluctuation in price between the graduated reductions. Probably a different seller, many do what you describe regularly.

Band 17 was a weird little AT&T-only band that's now redundant. Band 17 is completely contained inside band 12. Recent AT&T phones support band 12 rather than 17. Older band 17 phones still work because AT&T's 700 Mhz towers identify themselves as supporting both band 12 and 17.

I think it's a non-issue. In my experience non-T-Mobile band 12 capable phones with T-Mobile SIMs never connect to band 12 on T-Mobile. I've tried with an AT&T Note 4 (which supports VoLTE on AT&T) and an AT&T LG G4 which doesn't.

Neither ever seem to connect to band 12 even though I'm in a T-Mobile band 12 market. I think T-Mobile is blocking mon-T-Mobile devices from connecting to band 12 to avoid the issue of 911 not working without VoLTE support.

I tried the ZTE zmax2 and really liked it, ACCEPT: you cannot disable ANY of the Google apps; I couldn't find any "app ops" type apps to work on lollipop without root; and I couldn't find a successful root method. These were deal breakers for me, but maybe you can live with them. I had no trouble getting art to unlock it for free within 3 or 4 days, so that was awesome. I really liked the screen. Once someone gets a rooting method, I'll buy one! Or, if they ever push marshmallow (very doubtful).

Can anyone with cricket answer a question for me? So if I buy the best buy cricket phones and get the $25 cricket airtime card how does it work if I apply the card to a current $40 plan ($35 with autopay) would I still get the $5 off a month or would I lose $5 using a prepaid card over the autopay?

NetTalk appears to be another T-Mobile business re-seller that breaks up multi-line business plans and resells each line to individuals. Same business model as 35orLess, Harbor Mobile, Mobal Freedom, 4G Antenna Shop and BlueGreen Mobile. These outfits have a history of suddenly shutting down within a year of launch.

Tracfone has removed some of their better refill cards for smartphones from their website. They had 3000 voice/text/data cards for less than $100, 2000 minute cards, etc. Seems their prices have gone up a lot since they remove the more economical ones. Sent a message to Tracfone about the removal of the better smartphone refill cards and they said they aren't carrying them any more. So Tracfone is getting more expensive.

B&H Photo undercuts Best Buy, adds $50 gift card and screen protectors to its Nexus 6P sale.The New York based retailer is offering the 32GB Graphite Nexus 6P for $419.99, matching Best Buy's deal. But it is also tossing in a $50 B&H gift card and a free two-pack of screen protectors from Xuma valued at $9.99. Including the gift card, you're paying just $369.99.